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Maybe one day it will help rural customers

Well here in Silicon Valley, we are stuck with 60-year-old phone lines that barely carry POTS (so we can forget about DSL), or there's Comcast [still haven't heard much positive about them from subscribers I talk to] or Sprint Broadband.

Sprint's service has been pretty good here, but it still seems pathetic that this is the best we can get in one of the so-called technological centers of the country.

I truly feel for those rural customers who are really out of luck, unless they can afford and tolerate Hughes satellite Internet.

reply to ansar

said by ansar:

I don't see this helping rural customers any time soon, especially those that don't even get EVDO.

The one thing I hope for is that eventually, they use the WiMax for backhauls. This might make it more profitable for them to deploy WiMax on all there towers and thus get to me.

I still don't understand their deployment plans. If I lived in the city, I would get DSL or CableModem without question. I wouldn't even consider wireless.

reply to ansar

said by ansar:

I don't see this helping rural customers any time soon, especially those that don't even get EVDO.

The one thing I hope for is that eventually, they use the WiMax for backhauls. This might make it more profitable for them to deploy WiMax on all there towers and thus get to me.

I still don't understand their deployment plans. If I lived in the city, I would get DSL or CableModem without question. I wouldn't even consider wireless.